Almost immediately after going to press with a student-newspaper editorial that was offensive to Latino immigrants, administra...

LOS ANGELES - A man avoided the fate of two of his co-conspirators in a murder-and-kidnapping plot targeting Russian immigrant...

Forum Column - By Karen Mathis - Legislation to help prosecutors and public defenders pay off their student loans is an invest...

Focus Column - By Jeff Adachi and DeMarris R. Evans - California law offers many opportunities for taking remedial action towa...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Internet adoption agency that refused a gay Bay Area couple's application announced Tuesday it will pull ou...

SAN FRANCISCO - After initiating a closely watched suit against Target Corp.'s Web site alleging failure to accommodate blind ...

Some observers say the disparity in the cases of Steve Jobs and Gregory Reyes, two longtime Silicon Valley leaders caught up i...

A bedridden San Diego man who claimed a doctor failed to diagnose his skin cancer has received the largest medical-malpractice...

WASHINGTON - Critics of the immigration-reform bill working its way through Congress have attacked a proposal to provide legal...

Appointed by President Clinton in 1998 to the 9th U.S.Circuit Court of Appeals, Margaret McKeown is known as a first-rate juri...

Self-Assessment Test - By Hon. Alex Ricciardulli

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Califormia, is using her new position as chair of an environmental committee to prod the Bush administra...

In a ruling that could change the face of juvenile-court security across the state, a state appellate court on Monday said you...

Web Exclusive - Morrison Foester wins big with a defense verdict in a patent dispute in eastern Texas. ...

Letter to the Editor — Erwin Chemerinsky and the Daily Journal were wrong to blame the Supreme Court’s recent abortion ruling ...

Focus Column – By Mitchell A. Jacobs and David L. Marcus – A Court of Appeal decision provides an unusual example of the divis...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge again postponed the wiretapping and conspiracy trial against former celebrity sleuth Anthony Pel...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - When Brian M. Wong met Melissa Ma, there was no reason to believe it was the start of a beautif...

WASHINGTON - A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court sided Monday with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in the case of a res...

LOS ANGELES - In an entry on Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman's Web site, Richard S. Ruben is described as the firm's "senior t...

SACRAMENTO - Local governments in California would no longer be able to use eminent domain to seize private homes and turn the...

A judge is taking a fresh look at whether a juror in a 1991 death-penalty trial hid the fact that he knew the victim. Does it ...

WASHINGTON - Handing a significant victory to the business community, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday short-circuited a class...

Orange County Superior Court Judge Lance P. Jensen says he believes in giving second chances. ...

Elizabeth Taylor displays her Vincent Van Gogh painting, "View of the Asylum of Saint-Remy," at her Los Angeles home in 1990. ...

Forum Column - By Ronald Zumbrun - California voters next year may get a second chance to block the effect of the U.S. Supreme...

LOS ANGELES - Davis Wright Tremaine has merged with Parsons Hsue & De Runtz, a three-attorney San Francisco firm specializ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Why would two intellectual property attorneys lateral to a firm held in high esteem for its tax-controversy an...

LOS ANGELES - Hank Evans, a former partner at Bingham McCutchen, has joined Farella Braun & Martell as a partner in the fi...

LOS ANGELES - With more and more prosecutions relying on DNA evidence, public defenders in Los Angeles County have formed a 10...